Europe's Experimental Union: Rethinking Integration

by Michael Smith, Brigid Laffan, Rory O' Donnell, et al.

Book Overview

Europe's Experimental Union challenges conventional writings on European integration by situating the analysis of the EU in the context of changing patterns of political and economic order. The authors conclude that the union is not evolving towards a federal superstate, but rather, is an arena of deep economic integration governed by a prismatic polity characterised by innovation, experimentation, pragmatism, decentralisation and devolution. Although...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041510260X
• ISBN13: 9780415102605
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"